About Joe

Owner and adminstration of the Painting With Watercolors website and forum. I am a professional watercolor artist, though I also use other mediums including pen and ink. I also enjoy playing with computers and the internet so this website is a bit of a hobby of mine.

A few years ago I produced a video watercolor painting demonstration of a Venetian canal scene. In the spirit of Christmas I have now decided to make it free, which you can see in its entirety on YouTube. I hope you find it of benefit in your watercolor journey. My latest book, Watercolors Step-By-Step, availableContinue Reading …»

Thanks to overwhelmingly positive responses to the demonstrations in my first book â€śMastering Watercolors â€“ a practical guide,â€ť Iâ€™ve created this new book as a collection of additional how-to demos. Here youâ€™ll find twelve step-by-step paintings with reference photos and plenty of images to guide you through each piece. Iâ€™ve also included a section onContinue Reading …»

When painting with watercolors, in my style, the under-painting (initial wash), is very important as it holds a painting together. The under-painting must be tonally correct or the painting will never look quite right. When I am painting a landscape, at the under-painting stage, the scene should already look like a landscape. The sky andContinue Reading …»

One of the questions I am most frequently asked by my students has to do with how to mix greens. No other color generates as much confusion regarding how it is mixed. Green is produced when you mix blue with yellow. However, as most blue and yellow pigments are not pure colors i.e. they containContinue Reading …»

I recently went on a 5-day plein air painting trip to the town of Tumut in NSW. The weather was perfect, with the main challenge being the changing light. Unlike most other places in New South Wales, where evergreen trees predominate, around the Tumut region, there are plenty of deciduous trees which add lots ofContinue Reading …»

Watercolors Step By Step

My second book Watercolors, Step-By-Step, is now available through Amazon as a paperback and eBook. It is a great follow on from my first book if you have already read that one and would like more step by step demonstrations.